The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink About20120316Response to IPC Motion to Stay.pdfPeter 1. Richardson ISB # 3195 Gregory Adams ISB # 7454 RICHARSON & O'LEARY PLLC 515 N. 27th Street Boise, Idaho 83702 Telephone: (208) 938-7901 Fax: (208) 938-7904 greg!ßnchardsonandolear.com peter!ßnchardsonandolear.com RECEIVED 2012 MAR l 6 AM 8: 40 Attorneys forthe J. R. Simplot Company BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE ) COMMISSION'S REVIEW OF PURPA QF ) CONTRACT PROVISIONS INCLUDING ) THE SURROGATE AVOIDED ) RESOURCE (SAR) AND INTEGRATED ) RESOURCE PLANING (lRP) ) METHODOLOGIES FOR CALCULATING ) PUBLISHED AVOIDED COST RATES CASE NO. GNR-E-11-03 J. R. SIMPLOT COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER'S MOTION FOR TEMPORARY STAY OF ITS OBLIGATION TO ENTER INTO NEW POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTS WITH QUALIFYING FACILITIES COMES NOW, the J. R. Simplot Company ("Simplot") in response to Idaho Power Company's ("Idaho Power") Motion for Temporar Stay of its Obligation to Enter into New Power Purchase Agreements with Qualifying Facilties ("Motion"); Memorandum in Support of Idaho Power Company's Motion ("Memorandum") and Affdavit of Randy C. Allphin in Support ofIdao Power Company's Motion ("Affdavit") and urges the Idaho Public Utilties Commission ("Commission") to deny Idaho Power's Motion in its entirety and to maintain the schedule curently in place for prosecuting ths docket. 1 - J. R SIMPLOT COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER'S MOTION FOR A STAY SIMPLOT ADOPTS AND ENDORSES THE COMMENTS FILED BY EXERGY DEVELOPMENT GROUP IN THIS MATTER The J. R. Simplot Company has reviewed in detail the comments flIed by Exergy Development Group in this matter an urges the Commission to act on Exergy's request that the Commission swifty deny Idaho Power's Motion in its entirety. In paricular, Simplot agrees with Exergy's assertion that the sky is not fallng and no undue emergency exists. Idaho Power has simply not demonstrated any operational reason to halt QF development in Idaho. Simplot notes that the Commission has already reduced the availability of published avoided cost rates for wind and solar projects from ten average monthly megawatts to one hundred kilowatts. The curent docket is set for the purose of evaluating inputs into the IRP methodology for calculating avoided cost rates. This docket should be permitted to ru its course as the paries - including Idaho Power all agreed just a few months ago. THE J.R. SIMPLOT COMPANY'S EXISTING OF WOULD BE NEGATIVELY IMPACTED BY IDAHO POWER'S PROPOSED PURP A MORATORIUM Notwithstanding Simplots objections to the impact ofIdaho Power'sflling on all QFs, Simplot also takes paricular issue with the impact of the Motion on Simplots Don Plant QF. Simplot's QF at its Don Plant is a cogeneration plant with a nameplate capacity in excess of 10 MW for which Simplot curently sells the output to Idaho Power under a QF power purchase agreement with published rates. The contract is set to expire by its terms in March 2013. See Idaho PUC Case No. IPC-E-04-16 (approving the contract). Simplot has not yet secured a contract renewal for its plant, but hopes to do so in the coming months. Idaho Power's requested moratonum would prevent Simplot from completing its negotiations until much closer to the expiration of its existing contract than would be reasonable. 2 - J. R SIMPLOT COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER'S MOTION FOR A STAY In support of its Motion, Idaho Power appears to assume that the proposed moratorium will not impact existing projects because few or no contracts are expinng in 2012. This overlooks, however, that a moratonum can impact existing projects that will expire shortly after 2012 - such as the QF at the Don Plant. Such projects are (or should be) already included in Idaho Power's load and resource balance, thereby negating many, ifnot all, of the concerns that Idaho Power expressed for new projects in its filing. Negotiating a QF contract, paricularly one using the IRP Methodology, can take many months. Simplot understads this is likely even more tre now than in the past because Idaho Power is now engaged in contracting tactics whereby it refuses to disclaim ownership to the QF's environmental attibutes. The moratonum would obviously impact existing projects that would otherwse be reasonably attempting to secure a contract renewal for contracts that will expire in 2013, yet Idaho Power has provided no justification to curail such projects' PURPA nghts. The Commission should not overlook the impact on existing contracts, and that Idaho Power has yet again requested relief that far exceeds the scope of the alleged problem. DATED this 15th day of March, 2012. RICHARDSON & O'LEARY PLLC BY:12~.~Peter J. Richardson, ISB #3195 RICHARDSON & O'LEARY, PLLC - 3 - 1. R SIMPLOT COMPANY'S RESPONSE TO IDAHO POWER'S MOTION FOR A STAY CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on the 15th day of March, 2012, a tre and correct copy of the withn and foregoing RESPONSE OF THE J. R. SIMPLOT COMPANY TO IDAHO POWER'S MOTION TO STAY was served as shown to: Jean D. Jewell, Secretar Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 West Washington Boise, Idaho 83702 jean. jewell(ßpuc.idaho. gov _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile X Electronic Mail Donald Howell Kris Sasser Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 West Washington Boise, Idaho 83702 donald.howell(ßpuc. idaho. gov knsine. sasser(ßpuc.idaho.gov _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Donovan E. Walker Lisa D. Nordstrom Idaho Powe Company POBox 70 Boise, ID 83707-0070 dwalker(ßidahopower .com Inordstrom(gidahopower.com _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Michael G. Andrea Avista Corporation P.O. Box 3727 Spokane, W A 99220 michael.andrea(gavistacorp.com _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Electronic Copies Only: Ken Kaufman Lovinger Kaufman LLP 825 NE Multnomah Ste 925 Portland, OR 97232 Kaufman(ßlklaw.com _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Daniel Solander PacifiCorp/dba Rocky Mountain Power 201 S Main St Ste 2300 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 daniel.solander(gpacificorp.com _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Dean J. Miler McDevitt & Miler, LLP 420 W. Banock St. Boise, ID 83702 joe(gmcdevitt-miler .com _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Thomas H. Nelson Renewable Energy Coalition PO Box 1211 Welches, OR 97067-1211 nelsonCfthnelson.com _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail JohnR. Lowe Consultat Renewable Energy Coalition 12050 SW Tremont St Portland, OR 97225 jravenesanarcos(gyahoo.com ~ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail R. Greg Ferney Mimura Law Offices PLLC Interconnect Solar Development, LLC 2176 E Franin Rd Ste 120 Meridian, ID 83642 greg(gmimuralaw.com _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Bil Piske, Manager Interconnect Solar Development, LLC 1303 E. Carer Boise, ID 83706 bilpiske(gcableone.net _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Ronald L. Wiliams Wiliams Bradbur, PC 1015 W. Hays Street Boise, ID 83702 ron(gwillamsbradbur.com _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Wade Thomas General Counsel Dynamis Energy, LLC 776 W. Riverside Dr., Ste 15 Eagle,ID 83616 wthomasCidynamisenergy.com _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Shelley M. Davis Barker Rosholt & Simpson LLP 1010 W. Jefferson St (83702) PO Box 2139 Boise,ID 83701 smdCiidahowaters.com Bnan Olmstead General Manager Twin Falls Canal Company PO Box 326 Twin Falls, ID 83303 olmsteadCitfcanal.com Robert A. Paul Grand View Solar II 15690 Vista Circle Desert Hot Springs, CA 92241 robertapaul08Cigmail.com James Carkulis Exergy Development Group of Idaho, LLC 802 W. Banock, Ste 1200 Boise,ID 83702 j carkulisCiexergydevelopment.com Aron F. Jepson Blue Ribbon Energy, LLC 10660 South 540 East Sandy, UT 84070 aronesq(gaol.com M.J. Humphries Blue Ribbon Energy, LLC 4515 S. Amon Rd. Amon, ID 83406 blueribbonenergy(ggmail.com Ted Diehl General Manager North Side Canal Company 921 N. Lincoln St. Jerome, ID 83338 nscanal(gcableone.net _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Bil Brown Adams County Board of Commissioners PO Box 48 Council, IT 83612 bdbrownCifrontiernet.net Ted S. Sorenson, PE Birch Poer Company 5203 South 11th East Idaho Falls, ID 83404 ted(ftsorenson.net Glenn Ikemoto Margaret Rueger Idaho Windfars, LLC 6762 Blair Avenue Piedmont, CA 94611 glenniCienvisionwind.com margaret(genvisionwind.com Megan Walseth Decker Senior Staf Counsel Renewable Nortwest Project 917 SW Oak Street Ste 303 Portland, OR 97205 megan(grnp.org Benjamin J. Otto Idaho Conservation League 710N. Sixth Street (83702) POBox 844 Boise, ID 83701 bottoCiidahoconservation.org Ken Miler Snake River Allance PO Box 1731 Boise, ID 83701 kmiler(gsnakenveralliance.org _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail Robert D. Kah Executive Director Northwest & Intermountain Power Producers Coalition 1117 Minor Ave., Ste 300 Seattle, W A 98101 rkahCinippc.org Don Sturevant Energy Director J.R. Simplot Company PO Box 27 Boise, ID 83707-0027 don.stuevant(gsimplot.com _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postage pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail _ Hand Delivery _U.S. Mail, postae pre-paid Facsimile -. Electronic Mail tçl Peter J. Richardson